#622: Amida: Modim (Part 18)

snippet series sponsored by the Saka family inform the 18th of the of we express our gratitude three times a day for all that we don't take for granted and we express our admission that indeed we are dependent on Hashem and therefore modem is a essential part of so much as we mentioned quotes if it's the only one pays attention two they perhaps fulfill the whole mitzvah of because underlying all davening is modem is the concession the admission I need you I rely on you I depend on you and therefore I ask for all that I ask for so we've gone through the text and we're up to we thank we tell the story we count and recount our lives that are they are entrusted in your hands our whole life is entrusted to Hashem. We can't predict. We take all our initiative. We make all our effort. We do everything we can. But ultimately, the outcome is Hashem determines what the outcome will be about every aspect of of our lives. Now you'll note an interesting difference between our lives are given over where in your handsu when it comes to our souls they are picudos. What is pudos? Also entrusted. Our lives are given over and our souls are entrusted. Our lives are in your hand. Our souls are entrusted. L. What is to you? Why? What's the difference between why is one and one is so the commentators say means our goof our body one never knows what they'll wake up to find which joint won't be working or will hurt or ache which pain which faculty which will not be functioning the way it once was. who are our body is it's in your hands but we are every one of us is a part of God so where is that it's like a picadon it is entrusted is given back but the god doesn't hold in his hand like something external since we are each a unique part of hashem where are they picudos they go back to him to his essence So our body it's in your hand. Our soul is entrusted but not to your hand like it's something external you hold. Our soul which really all along always was a part of you is pudos is entrusted where it is entrusted to you. The moral is the moral writ and is grateful for the good that God did with them. How do you express that you're grateful? How do you demonstrate that you're grateful? You say, "I'm here of service to you." If you've ever done something nice for someone else, when they thank you, they'll normally or usually or may maybe appropriately say, "Thank you so much. What can I do for you? How can I repay the favor? How can I be of service to you? The way we express gratitude is not only with our lips, but we demonstrate it with our actions, writes the so if we're really grateful to God, we're literally give our soul to him. writes that's the that's the understanding of this we give gratitude to God that we are his way we can demonstrate to God that we're grateful to him is to say there is no me separate and apart and independent from you my whole life is here to work for you to be of service to you how am I needed by you the way I'm demonstrating my gratitude for being alive for being here for what I have is to be to you concludes the that's why we say in other words the maral is offering a very interesting interpretation it's not that among the things we're grateful for is that my body is in your hands and my soul returns to you it's not that we're listing among the things we're grateful for it's how do I demonstrate my gratitude? I am grateful to you and how do I demonstrate that gratitude? My life is yours. I'm ready to be neesh to dedicate and devote my entire life, my mission, my purpose, my focus, my life, my lifestyle. The way I demonstrate I'm grateful to you for all that you do for me is to return to turn to you and say, "How can I be of service to you? What can I do for you? What's my purpose? What's my mission? Why am I here? So these two expressions are not a list of things I'm grateful for, but they are in fact the definition of expressing gratitude. I demonstrate my gratitude by a willingness to be nephesh and moser to you and for you. What is mo soul that is? So we'll see I guess tomorrow night at least four or five different interpretations among theim what do we mean when we say this expression I'll ask you I'll leave it there our souls picudos what is picudos what does the word picudos sound like a picodon what's a picodonic collateral someone watches guard we say and nights KMS I actually was thinking connected to some of us are already in PES mode but the secret password for leaving that brought about the gula was picama and by tomorrow night hopefully we'll have some connection between them all but there's several interpretations why not just say the same ways Why do we use a different word for the word pudos? What is that meant to invoke?